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Florida launches criminal investigation into Roblox, claims the gaming platform 'enabled our kids to be abused'
news No charges have been filed but Florida AG James Uthmeier says the criminal subpoenas "will enable us to gather more information for our prosecutors."
AI is 'a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,' Take-Two boss says: 'A great thing' for business, but it's not creative and never will be
news Strauss Zelnick shared his thoughts on the impact of AI on game development at today's Paley International Council Summit.
Fallout 4 is getting the Skyrim treatment with a 10th anniversary edition that includes all the expansions and a mountain of Creation content
news A Fallout: New Vegas 15th anniversary bundle was unveiled too, but it includes a big Securitron statue so the appeal is probably a lot more limited.
Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'
news The new strategy represents "a complete reorganization of the company's operational development system, placing AI at the center of problem solving."
The new Painkiller is out now and it's not great, but that's okay because the old Painkiller still is and there's a fantastic new mod that makes it look like a brand-new game
news The 20-year streak of bad Painkiller follow-ups remains unbroken.
Cards Against Humanity settles $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX, but Elon Musk 'did the legal equivalent of throwing dust in our eyes and kicking us in the balls' so backers are getting a card set about Musk instead of money
news SpaceX admitted to trespassing on Cards Against Humanity's property, but the cost of a trial would likely have been more than CAH could have won.
Steam's latest 'experiment' is a new way of discovering games that's actually really convenient and useful
news The Personal Calendar tracks recent releases and upcoming games in an easy-to-digest format that I really like.
Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word 'layoffs,' with a 'voluntary career transition program' offer that some employees won't be able to refuse
news Ubisoft RedLynx, meanwhile, has put forward a restructuring plan that definitely will result in layoffs.
Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it'
news Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley says we're already starting to see a flood of 'really low-quality, AI-made games' on Steam and other storefronts.
The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower'
news Ukrainian developer Frogwares says it will start showing off more Sinking City 2 gameplay in the next few months, but it's not going to make the hoped-for 2025 release.
'Controller players are winning slightly more in close-range engagements': Treyarch throws a live grenade into 'controller vs mouse' debate, says aim assist will be less forgiving in Black Ops 7
news Treyarch says it's going "take a very close look at the strength of aim assist," as well as rotational aim assist ahead of Black Ops 7's release.
Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024
news Marcus Lehto founded Ridgeline Games in 2021 to develop the narrative campaign for the next Battlefield, but the studio was shuttered before the game arrived.
Dead Cells studio opted to make a new game despite 'super strong' pressure for a sequel because 'we are driven by what we want to make'
news Dead Cells was a huge hit, but Motion Twin wasn't interested in doing another one.
Our most anticipated 13th-century Mongolian horse game had such a popular Next Fest demo the developers have decided to delay it
news The Legend of Khiimori is now set to hit early access in March 2026.
Server shutdowns claim another victim: The Sims Mobile will disappear for good in January
news Electronic Arts is pulling the plug on Sims Mobile servers."
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
Don't count on Arc Raiders ever getting a first-person mode: 'Once you start being able to put your face right up against an asset, it kind of falls apart'
news Design director Virgil Watkins says it would take an awful lot of work to make a first-person mode for Arc Raiders.
Arc Raiders playtest slams past 185,000 concurrent players on Steam alone
news A hotfix was rolled out right after the server slam began, but otherwise it seems to be smooth sailing.
Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it
news Tencent seems ready to make big changes to Light of Motiram, but Sony isn't buying it.
Arc Raiders, one of our most anticipated games of 2025, is free for all in its final pre-release playtest this weekend
news The Arc Raiders server slam is live now, for all players on all platforms.
Former Assassin's Creed boss says he did not leave voluntarily: 'I stayed at my post until Ubisoft asked me to step aside'
news Marc-Alexis Côté says he was offered a role at Vantage Studios, "but it did not carry the same scope, mandate, or continuity with the work I had been entrusted with."
The Borderlands 4 update that's going to take away your infinite-bleed god-knife is delayed until next week
news A last-minute speedbump means one more weekend of sharp-edged fun.
Gamers hand Ubisoft a rare 'W' as The Crew 2's offline mode finally goes live
news "Hybrid Mode," as it's properly known, lets players choose between online and offline play, or just automatically loads the game into offline mode when no connection is available.
